OBITUARIES: Paul LIEBAU, Rice Lake, Barron Co., WI ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Submitted by: Kent Robarge 03 August 2007 ************************************************************************ Obituary of Paul Liebau in Wed, May 24, 1939 Rice Lake Chronotype (Rice Lake, Barron County, WI) Paul Liebau, Noted Band Leader, Dies Funeral Services to Be Held in This City on Thursday Morning Municipal Band Will Play Funeral Dirge; Rites at Eau Claire on Friday Paul Liebau, 55, director of the Rice Lake municipal band for 22 years, passed away at 9:30 p.m. Monday at his home. Mr. Liebau had been in poor health for more than a year. Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday morning at the home with Rev. G. Heldke officiating. Members of the city band will march and play a funeral dirge from the home to the bridge on Main st., where it will break ranks and allow the procession to go through. The body will be taken to Eau Claire where services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Liebau home, 644 Putnam ave. Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery. The body will lie in state at Eau Claire Thursday and Friday. Mr. Liebau came to Rice Lake in 1916 from Eau Claire where he directed the Wisconsin state band for several years. He organized and directed the Birchwood high school band from 1934 to 1938. He achieved fame as a composer as well as a director. During his residence here he wrote 14 marches, practically all of which have been played by the Crosley Military Band over station WLW at Cincinnati. The most widely known of his band compositions are the "128th Infantry March" and "South Wind." He also composed several cornet duet and quartet numbers and a few waltzes. Mr. Liebau was born in Saxony, Germany, in 1884. At the age of four he came to this country with his parents, and settled on a farm near Badger Mills, near Eau Claire. As a youth he played in the famed Bock's Boys' band at Eau Claire. He left the farm at the age of 24 to study music at Binghamton, N.Y. He was married in 1912 to Frances Leinenkugel. Mr. Liebau is survived by his widow, three sisters, Mrs. Arthur Neuser, Ella and Anna Liebau, three nieces and two nephews, all of Eau Claire.